Sandhi-Voicing in Dialectal Polish: Prosodic Implications
cytuj
pobierz pliki
RIS BIB ENDNOTEChoose format
RIS BIB ENDNOTESandhi-Voicing in Dialectal Polish: Prosodic Implications
Publication date: 29.06.2018
Studies in Polish Linguistics, Volume 13 (2018), Vol. 13, Issue 2, pp. 123 - 143
https://doi.org/10.4467/23005920SPL.18.006.8745Authors
Sandhi-Voicing in Dialectal Polish: Prosodic Implications
Sandhi-voicing in dialectal Polish affects word-final obstruents in pre-sonorant and pre-vocalic environments. According to the standard descriptions, the process occurs irrespectively of the ‘underlying’ laryngeal specification of the consonant. The process has been problematic for phonological theory, with earlier accounts either requiring ad-hoc mechanisms to allow the ‘spreading’ of [voice], or providing an inadequate explanation of why the process is limited to word boundaries. In this paper, we test the hypothesis that sandhi-voicing dialects is a function of weaker word boundaries in the given dialects. Weaker boundaries go hand in hand with weaker initial syllables. We compare the speech of Standard Polish speakers (N=10) with speakers of the Poznań-Kraków dialect (N=10), who recorded sentences containing obstruent-sonorant sequences spanning word boundaries. We found acoustic evidence of weaker initial syllables for two prosodic parameters in the productions of dialect speakers. The relative strength of word-boundaries is described in the Onset Prominence model (OP; Schwartz 2010 et seq.), which also explains the role of manner of articulation in triggering the process.
Bethin Christina (1984). Voicing assimilation in Polish. International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics 29, 17–32.
Boersma Paul, Weenink David (2011). Praat: doing phonetics by computer [Computer programme].Version 5.4.04.
Comrie Bernard (1976). Irregular stress in Polish and Macedonian. International Review of Slavic Linguistics 1, 227−240.
Cyran Eugeniusz (2014). Between Phonology and Phonetics – Polish Voicing. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Dogil Grzegorz (1999). The phonetic manifestation of word stress in Polish, Lithuanian, Spanish, and German. In: Word Prosodic Systems in the Languages of Europe. Harry van der Hulst (ed.), 273−311. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Gussmann Edmund (1992). Resyllabification and delinking: the case of Polish voicing. Linguistic Inquiry 23(1), 29–56.
Honeybone Patrick (2005). Diachronic evidence in segmental phonology: the case of obstruent laryngeal specifications. In: The Internal Organization of Phonological Systems. Marc van Oostendorp and Jeroen van der Weijer (eds.), 319–354. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Lisker Leigh, Abramson Arthur (1964). A cross-language study of voicing in initial stops: Acoustical measurements. Word 20(3), 527−565.
Manaster-Ramer Alexis (1996). A letter from an incompletely neutral phonologist. Journal of Phonetics 24(4), 477−489.
Newlin-Łukowicz Luiza (2012). Polish Stress: looking for phonetic evidence of a bidirectional system. Phonology 29(2), 271—329.
Port Robert (1996). The discreteness of phonetic elements and formal linguistics: A response to A. Manaster-Ramer. Journal of Phonetics 24(4), 491−511.
Rice Keren D. (1993). A reexamination of the feature [sonorant]. Language 69(2): 308−344.
Rubach Jerzy (1996). Nonsyllabic analysis of voice assimilation in Polish. Linguistic Inquiry 27(1): 69–110.
Rubach Jerzy, Booij Geert (1990). Edge of constituent effects in Polish. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 8(3), 427−463
Schwartz Geoffrey (2010). Phonology in the speech signal – unifying cue and prosodic licensing. Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics 46(4), 499−518.
Schwartz Geoffrey (2013). Vowel hiatus at Polish word boundaries − phonetic realization and phonological implications. Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics 49(4), 557−585.
Schwartz Geoffrey (2016a). On the evolution of prosodic boundaries – parameter settings for Polish and English. Lingua 171, 37−74.
Schwartz Geoffrey (2016b). Representing non-neutralization in Polish sandhi-voicing. In: Phonology, its Faces and Interfaces. Jolanta Szpyra-Kozłowska, Eugeniusz Cyran (eds.), 103−122. Bern: Peter Lang.
Schwartz Geoffrey (2017). Formalizing modulation and the emergence of phonological heads. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics 2(1), 81. [DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.465; accessed December 1, 2017]
Strycharczuk Patrycja (2012). Phonetics-phonology Interactions in Pre-Sonorant Voicing. Manchester: University of Manchester, PhD. dissertation.
Traunmüller Hartmut (1994). Conventional, biological, and environmental factors in speech communication: A modulation theory. Phonetica 51. 170–183. [DOI: https://doi.org/10.1159/000261968; accessed October 30, 2017]
Information: Studies in Polish Linguistics, Volume 13 (2018), Vol. 13, Issue 2, pp. 123 - 143
Article type: Original article
Titles:
Sandhi-Voicing in Dialectal Polish: Prosodic Implications
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Published at: 29.06.2018
Article status: Open
Licence: CC BY-NC-ND
Percentage share of authors:
Article corrections:
-Publication languages:
EnglishView count: 1709
Number of downloads: 1230